Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW COLLEGE LANE
639-1/15/263 (South side)
Nos.7A AND 8

GV II

House, now with a separate flat on the 2nd and part of the 1st
storey. C16 core; C19 and early C20 alterations. Timber-framed
and roughcast- rendered; white brick to ground storey at the
west end; slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys: a short cross-wing at the west end with a
gabled roof. The main range has 4 windows on the 1st storey,
one sash with a single vertical glazing-bar and 3 narrow
paired sashes without glazing bars. Two 16-pane sashes to the
top storey and also to the ground storey, all in flush cased
frames.
The recessed 6-panel entrance door to No.8 has 4 sunk upper
panels with moulded surrounds and 2 flush lower panels. A
heavy wood doorcase with a flat cornice hood. No.7A has a
later half-glazed door. The cross-wing has a wide tripartite
sash window without glazing bars to the ground storey and a
2-light Edwardian casement window to the 1st storey with small
panes to the top lights. Similar windows on the 1st storey
along the west side which has a projecting rectangular bay
with heavy Edwardian Jacobean mullion-and-transom windows on
the ground storey.
INTERIOR: a timber frame runs through the whole building but
is heavily overlaid with Edwardian work. Most features,
including the stair and the heavy 3-light 'Gothic' window on
the half-landing, are of late C19 or early C20 date.
The wing at the west end has good exposed studding on the 1st
storey. A heavily-weathered post in the west wall with a
mortice for a window-sill is on the line of the original rear
wall, which was removed when a small rear extension and
chimney-stack were added. The top storey is also an addition.

Listing NGR: TL8542263936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540523

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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